Today in Communist History (Part 3)
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
Related Topics: Soviet Union
Historical Events
Results 201 - 232 of 232
1988-09-26 - Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1989-02-25 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989-08-19 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1989-10-23 - Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
1989-11-24 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989-12-01 - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1990-01-12 - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1990-02-07 - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990-03-18 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990-04-28 - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1990-07-12 - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990-07-29 - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1991-06-04 - 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1991-08-21 - Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
1991-08-24 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991-08-29 - USSR suspends Communist Party activities
1991-11-06 - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991-12-31 - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1992-04-06 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
1993-04-28 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian govt with ex-communists
1994-11-15 - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1994-11-30 - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1994-12-18 - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
2000-12-19 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001-01-23 - The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002-11-04 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
2002-11-15 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2003-07-07 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
2003-11-18 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).
2004-05-16 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2004-09-21 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
2005-11-29 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
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